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AJTELO P E. 
LOP?" Annukted or tw ifted horns. 
Eight broad cutting teeth in the lower jaw ^ none 
in the upper. 
Body and limbs of a light and elegant form. 
The feveral fpecies that compofe this genus, two 
or three excepted, inhabit the hotteft part of the 
globe; or at left thofe parts of the temperate zone 
that lie fo near the tropics as to form a doubtful! 
climate. 
None therefore, except the Saiga *, are to be 
met with in Europe \ and, notwithstanding the 
warmth of South America , is fuited to their nature, 
yet not a fingle fpecies has ever been difeovered in 
any part of the new world. Their proper climates 
feems therefore to be thofe of Afia and Africa , where 
the fpecies are very numerous. 
As there appears a general agreement in the na¬ 
ture of the fpecies that form this great genus, it 
will prevent a needlefs repetition to obferve here, 
that the Antelopes are animals of a moft elegant 
and aftive make; of a reftlefs and timid difpofi- 
tion } extremely watchfull *, of great vivacity ; re¬ 
markably fwift; remarkably agile, and moft of 
their boundings fo light, fo elaftic, as to ftrike the 
fpe&ator with aftonilhment. What is very fmgujar, 
they will ftop in the midft of their courfe, for a 
moment gaze at their purfuers, and then refume 
their flight 
* Found between the Don arid Dnieper and, as I have heard, 
even in Treinjykvania . 
** Shaw’s trav. 2*44. 
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